"Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about our moral condition. Both thought that religion would become more and not less powerful, emotionally and morally, if the claims of scriptures and religious teachings were taken symbolically rather than literally (whatever 'literally' might mean in the case of claims that are either nonsensical or outdated or historically unsupportable if taken as metaphysical or historical assertions)."

-- Allen W. Wood

#Religious Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.”
“Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis.... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.”
“Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.”

Source : Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.
“If they [mexicans] cross the border, I think, and they are violating the law, then that word criminal does connect with that violation, so if they're violating the law, I guess you can call them criminals. We call everybody else criminals that violate the law.”

Source : "Transcript: Sheriff Joe Arpaio interviewed by Jorge Ramos on Univision". Interview with Jorge Ramos, www.univision.com. January 28, 2016.
“Hollywood can be an ugly place and it can do ugly things to you.”
“I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.”
“... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.”
“Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.”

Source : Robert Graves (1965). “Mammon and the black goddess”

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